Show your Pride and support this month by building your bookshelf with a colorful assortment of LGBTQ+ affirming read alouds and books that celebrate Pride History, diverse family structures, and love for all people! Whether you are a proud member, active ally, or welcome newcomer to the LGBTQ+ community, filling your home or classroom with LGBTQ+ representation through the magical world of children’s books will diversify your library AND build compassion and love for all people.

By filling your home or classroom with books that portray all kinds of families and celebrate LGBTQ+ representation, you are setting the stage for open-mindedness and love for all people that will positively impact your family or classroom, community, and the next generation.

Here are some of our favorite books that feature themes of love, family, and LGBTQ+ representation:

LGBTQ Books for Infant and Toddlers (0-3 years)

• My Family, Your Family by Kathryn Cole

• Love in the Wild by Katy Tanis

• Pride Colors by Robin Stevenson

• Babies Everywhere by Susan Meyers

• Rainbow: A First Book of Pride by Michael Genhart

• My Two Dads and Me and My Two Moms and Me by Michael Joosten

• Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer

• Families Can, Families Belong, and Families Grow by Dan Saks

• Our Rainbow by Little Bee Books

• Harvey Milk (People of Pride) by Little Bee Books

• Frederico and All His Families by Mili Hernández

• The Pronoun Book by Chris Ayala-Kronos

LGBTQ Books for Preschool and Kindergarten

Preschool and up (3 years - school-age)

• This Little Rainbow: A Love-Is-Love Primer by Joan Holub

• Worm Loves Worm by J J Austrian

• Grandad’s Camper by Harry Woodgate

• A Family Is a Family Is a Family by Sara O’Leary

• And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

• Heather Has Two Mommies, Daddy, Papa, and Me, and Mommy, Momma, and Me by Leslea Newman

• My Maddy by Gayle E. Pitman

• A Plan for Pops by Heather Smith

• My Moms Love Me by Anna Membrino

• Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer

• Introducing Teddy: A Gentle Story about Gender and Friendship by Jess Walton

• Jack (Not Jackie) by Erica Silverman

• It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity by Theresa Thorn

• What Riley Wore by Elina K. Arnold

• Neither by Airlie Anderson

• Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

• My Shadow Is Pink and My Shadow Is Purple by Scott Stewart

• Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress by Christine Baldacchino

LGBTQ Books for School Age Children

• They She He Me: Free to Be! by Maya Christina Gonzalez

• One of a Kind, Like Me by Laurin Mayeno (4 and up)

• In Our Mother’s House by Patricia Polacco (6 and up)

• Jerome by Heart by Thomas Scotto

• Call Me Max by Kyle Lukoff

• Red: A Crayon’s Story by Michael Hall

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